Class of 2009 Certificate Students
Back row (l-r): Mike Seager, Hans Eysenbach, Maya Jacobs,
Rebeccah Beachell, Samantha Wright, Sarah Ayres, Katherine Sacca, Jeff Nemec
Front Row (l-r): Jamey Smith, Andrew Watts, Rick Hederstrom, Tyler Dunham
Sarah Ayres
Major: History
Environmental Interests: The ways in which policy, culture and the environment have collided with one another throughout history.
Internship Proposal: My ideal internship would be with an organization that conducts both scientific and cultural research on fishing communities to determine the effectiveness of government regulations.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I hope to trace the history of policies that have shaped the fishing community on Vinalhaven Island in Maine. I want to understand these regulations from both a cultural and a scientific perspective.
Rebeccah Beachell
Major: Government/East Asian Studies
Minor: Philosophy
Environmental Interests: The environment and governmental policy.
Internship Proposal: My ideal internship would take place in China with an NGO that is involved in policy, like the Nature Conservancy.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I propose a study of how China's government works with NGOs to enforce the country's environmental policy.
Tyler Dunham
Major: Environmental Studies
Minor: Economics
Environmental Interests: Sustainable solutions to current environmental problems.
Internship Proposal: My ideal internship would be with Cape Wind learning about the economics of wind power but I would be interested in any type of firm that promotes the sale of renewable energies.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I propose an analysis of renewable energies with a focus on the economic benefits (and negative attributes) of wind energy.
Hans Eysenbach
Major: International Relations
Minor: Hispanic Studies
Environmental Interests: The scientific side of environmental preservation and governmental environmental issues.
Internship Proposal: My ideal intership would be with an NGO that provides assistance to indigenous communities in defending their rights and the environment.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: A study of mega projects and their effects on the environment and the surrounding indigenous peoples in Latin America.
Richard Hederstrom
Major: Ethnobotany
Environmental Interests: To explore the environment in a wider perspective and in new contexts.
Internship Proposal: Ideally, I would like to spend a summer doing collaborative research on plants and the uses of plants by people in the South American rainforest.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: For my senior integrative project, I plan to create an ethnobotanical guide, providing the uses, cultivation methods, origins, and any other ethnobotanical knowledge obtainable for as many plants as possible found either on indigenous farms, in marketplaces, or in parts of Peru.
Maya R. Jacobs
Major: Environmental Studies
Minor: Hispanic Studies
Environmental Interests: I am interested making strong connections between Hispanic and Environmental studies.
Internship Proposal: I would like an internship with Bosque Modelo Chiloé, a Chilean organization that promotes biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development while improving the quality of life for rural families and indigenous communities.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I would like to focus on sustainable development and hot environmental issues in South America.
Jeff Nemec
Major: Philosophy
Environmental Interests: Incorporating my philosophical background in examining environmental issues and to broaden my environmental perspective.
Internship Proposal: My ideal internship would be to join an organization that integrates environmental awareness and action through sport.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: Greening of the Games: A Philosophical Inquiry into Sport and Its Environmental Relationship
Katherine Sacca
Major: Environmental Studies
Minor: Anthropology
Environmental Interests: To study environmental science with peers and have access to resources such as faculty working in the field, environmental conferences, and the Connecticut College Arboretum.
Internship Proposal: My proposed internship is at Tiamo Resorts in the Bahamas as an eco-tourism intern. My intern duties would include leading wildlife tours, acting as environmental ambassador to guests, and collecting data on bird populations in conservation areas vs. non-conservation areas in the Bahamas.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: My Senior Integrative Project will be based on the study of environmental and anthropological effects of eco-tourism in the Bahamas. I will use data collected during my internship to support my proposed hypothesis that eco-tourism sites promote positive environmental change and awareness on a small island in the Bahamas.
Mike Seager
Major: International Relations
Environmental Interests: To connect my interest in environmental issues with my interests in international politics and the economy.
Internship Proposal: Ideally, I would like to find an internship in Brazil working with an organization that has dealt with incorporating ethanol as an alternative energy source into the Brazilian market.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: In my project, I will discuss the economic and political barriers that stand in the way of a switch to ethanol in the US and discuss how Brazil managed to overcome these barriers.
Jamey Smith
Majors: Biological Sciences/Environmental Studies
Environmental Interests: Marine environmental protection.
Internship Proposal: Working closely with the captains of a coastal, reef-based fishing fleet in the tropics, I hope to aid in the conversion of the boats to the use of bio-diesel.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I plan to develope realistic possibilities for the production and distribution of bio-diesel to small and large fishing fleets, and to quantify the economic and environmental costs and benefits of such an infrastructure.
Andrew Watts
Major: Government
Environmental Interests: Synthesis between government and environmental studies.
Internship Proposal: I would like to spend my junior summer working for an environmental advocacy agency in Washington D.C.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I am currently prepared to undertake a senior thesis within the government department. I believe that a discourse on U.S. and international environmental policy would be an ideal topic that would fulfill my obligations to both the government department and the certificate program.
Samantha Wright
Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interests: To enhance my Environmental Studies major in a more hands-on way.
Internship Proposal: My ideal internship is through the SoundWaters Organization in Stamford, CT. The intership would involve laboratory and field work, as well as educating others on the history, preservation, and restoration of Long Island Sound.
Senior Integrated Project Proposal: I would like to research the lobster population and how the degradation of the Long Island Sound watershed has effected the estuary and the lobsters.
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